I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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